[Python-Dev] Requesting that a class be a new-style class

[Michael Hudson]

Alex Martelli <aleax at aleax.it> writes:

> On 2005 Feb 20, at 04:35, Jack Diederich wrote:
>
>>   I didn't dig into the C but does having 'type'
>> as metaclass guarantee the same behavior as inheriting 'object' or
>> does object
>> provide something type doesn't?  *wince*
>
> I believe the former holds, since for example:

I was going to say that 'type(object) is type' is everything you need
to know, but you also need the bit of code in type_new that replaces
an empty bases tuple with (object,) -- but 

class C:
    __metaclass__ = Type

and

class C(object):
    pass

produce identical classes.

> This is because types.ClassType turns somersaults to enable this: in
> this latter construct, Python's mechanisms determine ClassType as the
> metaclass (it's the metaclass of the first base class), but then
> ClassType in turn sniffs around for another metaclass to delegate to,
> among the supplied bases, and having found one washes its hands of the
> whole business;-).

It's also notable that type_new does exactly the same thing!

Cheers,
mwh

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